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U.S. debt is at its highest level since just after World War II, and it isn’t going down. The Committee for a Responsible budget suggests that a reasonable short-term goal would be to stabilize it at …

By admitting America doesn’t “have an immediate debt crisis,” House Speaker John Boehner reveals how the GOP manufactures “fiscal alarmism” to justify cuts to Social Security and other social programs …

Ah, the federal deficit, the national debt. One day they’re so critical that the republic would seem to be on the verge of collapse, the next, Capitol Hill is worried about birth control or pink slime …

Our opinion: The chairman of the House Budget Committee wants radical changes in Medicare and other entitlement programs. Effectively ending a health care program for 45 million people is a political …